The International Day of the Disappeared is an opportunity to stand in solidarity with the families of missing persons and to remember their missing relatives. We want families to know that they are not alone, that their loved ones are not forgotten, and that the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement continues to work to help them find the answers and support they deserve.

Red Cross’ Restoring Family Links programme played a crucial role in reconnecting three cousins after more than 40 years.

Red Cross cash assistance is providing much needed support to the people of Ukraine affected by conflict.

As we mark the International Day of the Disappeared Luz Mery Johnstone, a Restoring Family Links (RFL) practitioner with New Zealand Red Cross, shares her story of what it’s like to live with anguish, uncertain hope and unanswered questions about a family member who has involuntarily disappeared.

Forced to flee his family and everything he'd ever known, Ali Mashal's story is one of survival, hope and determination.